Sprint has just recently launched the 1Million Project, a multi-year program they have put up together with the Sprint Foundation. The partnership hopes to provide free high-speed wireless internet and mobile services to 1 million less fortunate high school students in the country. In doing so, they can help those individuals who do not have internet at home by reducing the "homework gap" that affects them.

A study recently conducted by the Pew Research Center showed that there is about 5 million families in the US do not have access to the internet at home. In a statement, Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure says that "Education is the foundation for our society to prosper." Claure shares how important and powerful of a tool the internet can be for learning. With the initiatives of the 1Million Project, a number of these individuals will be able to get the help they need.

The 1Million Project was inspired by a couple of programs that President Barack Obama established-- My Brother's Keeper and ConnectED. Sprint intends to work with a couple of non-profits, My Brother's Keeper and EveryoneOn, to provide free phone, tablet, laptop or hotspot. In addition to these devices, 3GB of LTE data will be provided each month. After they start the initiative in select markets, the carrier hopes to roll out the program throughout the country in preparation of the 2017-2018 school year.

Sprint customers are paying for it and they don't have the option to opt-out. Taxes pay for many great social services we ALL enjoy. Sprint is giving away service they can't even afford to give their own customers. Many of us still don't have LTE, but they have capital to provide handouts.

have to agree on this. there is an ulterior motive. I wouldn't call it hidden either. Its becoming very plain and evident why corps are more and more willing to give away mobile service. Android (google) collecting EVERYTHING, packaging it and selling it- now, or in the future. Your usage data is more valuable to advertisers, governments, etc, than the cost of the service. Even if there isn't currently a market for some of the data they are currently collecting, there will be a future market as enough pieces are collected and the picture on the puzzle becomes more and more clear. I've had enough. Android is dead and beyond repair. RIP

Sprint is in no financial position to offer charity. If they can afford to give away free service, they can afford to fix their network. We should consider the ulterior motives behind this. Tax breaks? Kickbacks? Just last week Marcelo was raising money for Hillary Clinton. So while these kids will enjoy 3GB, you're on 3G, and its coming out of your pocket. Corporate charity is a gimmick.

Wireless service isn't free, somebody has to pay for that service. It's either coming out of the pocket of Sprint customers or through Government subsidies. Either way, the worst network in this country is getting another bailout. The worst is Sprint will claim these students as "customers"

"It's either coming out of the pocket of Sprint customers or through Government subsidies"

1) If Sprint is paying for this out of THEIR money, which comes from customers which have paid for and received services, it is coming out of Sprint pockets, not the customers.

2) Allegations of subsidies? It would be interesting to see if their is evidence of this (as opposed to claims of "Tax breaks", which amount to $0 in subsidies: no money is given).

3) "Either way, the worst network in this country is getting another bailout." Where did this come from??? Who is giving a bailout, and of what amount?

4) Again, I am the last to defend Sprint. There's three networks better than them. USC is worse, as are dozens of other companies. The claim "the worst network in this country" is fact-free hyperbole. Which probably explains the rest of your comment: nothing true anywhere in it.

I wonder if the guy making the same preposterous claims here is the same one with the racist conspiracy theories about Boost and the polling places.

Get real. I will gladly criticize Sprint has being a network with poor coverage that makes questionable business decisions that don't benefit their bottom line or their future (or customers!). But that's as far as it goes... making poor business decisions does not mean that a company is controlled by some sort of evil political cabal.

Besides, if "they" wanted to take over the world, they would associate themselves with Verizon instead of a relatively minor and un-influential company like Sprint.

Hold tight your tinfoil hats, it's going to be a bumpy ride...

The rest of us give a pat on the back for what Sprint is doing here and also with the Boost Mobile polling places.